make-work job

English

Alternative forms

  • makework job

Noun

make-work job (plural make-work jobs)

  1. (economics) A job that has less immediate financial benefit to the economy than it costs to support.
    The government found make-work jobs for the laid-off airline employees to keep them off the dole.
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